Greg Baker Crooked River Thursday 7:45pm - 8:45pm Crooked River Saturday 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Basic Weathering Techniques (Hands On) Limit 25 per session Learn the basics of taking a standard plastic kit and adding some weathering. This will focus on tips for prepping the model and adding the first few layers of weathering. These techniques are good for all eras and a wide variety of scales. |
Greg Baker Crooked River Part 1 - Thursday 4:00pm - 5:00pm Part 2 - Thursday 6:30pm - 7:30pm |
Make and Take Evergreen Trees Part I & II Limit 50 participants Come make a background evergreens to add to your layout. Starting with trunks from Coastmans Scenic Products we will first start with building the basic tree structure. After the meal break come back to finish off the tree to take home with you. |
Dr. Geoffrey Bunza Umpqua River Friday 2:45pm - 3:45pm |
Bring life to your models with Light, Motion, and Sound Animation means giving life to inanimate things. The availability of miniature motors, low-cost controls, ultra small LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes), and small sound generators allow models to behave as if they were alive in miniature - to scale. Come, take a close look at using LEDs, motors, and sound modules to enliven your modeling |
Dr. Geoffrey Bunza Umpqua River Friday 11:15am - 12:15pm |
DCC Beyond the Locomotive Come have a look at DCC applications beyond simple locomotive and track control. This will take us to considerations for multiple DCC busses and a new concept called Intelligence On Board. |
Dr. Geoffrey Bunza Crooked River Thursday 11:15am - 12:15pm |
Modeling with Magnets The size range of rare earth magnets includes tiny rings nearly impossible to manipulate, to larger, incredibly strong connections. Come and enjoy exploring new components like these for their ultimate modeling possibilities -- from air brake and power coupling. |
Dr. Geoffrey Bunza Umpqua River Thursday 4pm - 5:00pm |
Scale Signs from Prototype Photos This clinic explains how to go about using poor prototype photos of building signs and create clear, usable signs for use with models of all scales. |
Heather Clark Crooked River Friday 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Painting Brass Spend an hour with Heather, a professional brass painter, as she shows her techniques for painting and finishing a highly detailed brass model. |
Charlie Comstock Umpqua River Thursday 2:45pm - 3:45pm |
Scenic Vistas of the Bear Creek & South Jackson HO scale layout Take a railfanning trip of the railroad as Charlie narrates video and images taken on his Bear Creek & South Jackson HO layout No. 3. See what has changed and what is upcoming on this large layout. |
Bill Decker Umpqua River Thursday 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Operating the SP Cascades Line in HO scale Ten years of operating the SP Cascade Line has both fulfilled the design objective and provided insight into how and why the SP ran the line in the 1980s. Lessons on organizing for operations and crew development will be discussed. |
Brian Ferris, MMR Umpqua River Thursday 9:00am - 9:45am |
Modeling Operations Using Prototype Information I will talk about how to research prototype information to develop or enhance layout operations. Examples mostly found at the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archives (PNRA) for northwest railroads will be used. |
Paul Hobbs Crooked River Saturday 11:30am - 12:30pm |
Every 20 years the Railroad Changes Railroads have existed in North America since the 1820’s. That is 200 years. We will review how the railroads evolved and developed in 20-year segments from 1820 through to the 2020’s. |
Paul Hobbs Umpqua River Friday 9:00am - 9:45am |
Snapshots of Scheduled Freight: NP Tacoma Division Using available railroad publications, combining with Employee Time Tables, Train Briefs, and Distribution of Power Lists, we can demonstrate which trains worked where. With such data we can develop realistic operating patterns for our model railroads. |
Ron Hopkins, MMR Crooked River Saturday 10:15am - 11:15am |
Making Buildings in O Scale A recently completed scratch-built O scale structure project that uses a wide range of building materials and techniques. The clinic will focus on the tips and tricks using this recent project as a source of suggestions. |
Jeff Johnston Crooked River Saturday 2:45pm - 3:45pm |
Clamps, Weights, Jigs, and Fixtures It is often the smaller, low-key tools in your arsenal which, along with your imagination, can make your model building faster, easier, and more precise. In this clinic I will show you how they work for me. |
Jim Moomaw Umpqua River Thusday 11:15am-12:15pm |
The Dispatcher's Office: What's there and what it does. |
Bob Parrish, MMR Crooked River Saturday 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Paper Interiors How to design, construct, and install paper interiors to any structure. Great to add to a kit or scratch built structure. |
Bob Parrish, MMR Crooked River Thursday 9:00am - 9:45am |
Structures using Monster Modelworks Brick Methods and trick shots to make great brick structures using the products available from Monster Modelworks |
Ray Persing, MMR Umpqua River Thursday 10:00am - 11:00am |
Achievement Program Update What’s new in the NMRA Achievement Program? National AP Manager Ray Persing will give you an update on everything that’s happening at national, plus answer any questions you may have. |
Ray Persing, MMR Umpqua River Thursday 6:30pm - 7:30pm |
Introduction to 3D Printing Everything you wanted to know about getting started with resin-based 3D printing, from choosing a printer to finishing the model and getting it on your layout. |
Philip Selinger Umpqua River Friday 10:00am - 11:00am |
Modeling in the Ragtime Era: 1910 Overview of railroading and life in 1910 and the advantages and challenges an early modeling era presents, with examples of available resources, models and scenes from my layout representing the Ma & Pa and Pennsy. |
Dan Sparks Crooked River Friday 9:00am - 9:45am |
3D Printing for Model Railroaders This will be an overview of the 3D printing process to help modelers decide if they can benefit from 3D printing. |
Trent Stetz Umpqua River Friday 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Connecting Communities in the Upper Willamette Valley Spend an hour with Trent from the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society as he provides a clinic on the railroad history of the Upper Willamette Valley and the surrounding area. Starting with the first railroads up to the current operations. |
Al Turnbull Umpqua River Thursday 7:45pm - 8:45pm |
Basic Control and Panel Construction Learn how to setup a control scheme for a layout. See various methods of panel fabrication and wiring for the operation of the layout. Designed to apply to DC & DCC applications |
Al Turnbull Crooked River Part 1 - Friday 10:00am - 11:00am Part 2 - Friday 11:15am - 12:15am |
Basic Scenery in TWO PARTS (Clinic is two hours) This is a 2-part clinic that explains methods and shows examples of scenery. It starts with a basic introduction to building a scenery base and then explains how to build out, paint, and detail the scene. |
Greg Wright, MMR Crooked River Thursday 10:00am - 11:00am |
Need more space? Add a mirror! With only a few square feet of space left in the layout room Greg used a mirror and some scenery products to add an open pit to his layout. This clinic will cover planning, construction, painting and forced perspective.
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